Gathering over twenty pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely, from the World Armwrestling Federation Championships in Sweden to Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake. Powell’s idiosyncratic playfulness brings this collection to vivid life, while his boundless curiosity and respect for the truth keep it on course. 

André Aciman returns to the essay form to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was—but could in theory still happen. Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.

A collection drawing on history, memory, and critical analysis that illuminates how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. In Waldie’s exploration of sprawling Los Angeles, he considers how the city's image was constructed and how it fostered willful amnesia about the city's conflicted past. 

From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home—experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial.

New York Times reporter Thompson-Hernández tells the compelling story of The Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud, centuries-old tradition of black cowboys in the heart of one of America’s most notorious cities.

Morgan Meis begins with a painting of the Greek mythological figure who mentors Dionysus, god of wine and excess, by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens and spirals out from there, drawing on wells of philosophy, history, and art criticism.

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and an extended immersion in the city of Arles, showcasing Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis’ sharp literary mind and invaluable insight.  

Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 70s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of the 80s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six is a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture.

Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an “adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer” (New York Times). By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, and the lost art of ice canoeing.

Poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world, dreaming about a handjob from John Ashbery, swimming next to Nicole Kidman, and reclaiming Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee. Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play.